Taber's Medical Dictionary
17-ketosteroid
(sev″ĕn-tēn′kēt-ō-stēr′oyd″)
One of a group of neutral steroids having a ketone group in carbon position 17. They are produced by the adrenal cortex and gonads and appear normally in the urine. Among them are androsterone, dehydroisoandrosterone, corticosterone, and 11-hydroxyisoandrosterone. A greater than normal or less than normal excretion in the urine is indicative of certain endocrine disorders such as adrenal adenomas or Cushing syndrome.
SEE: perhydrocyclopentanophenanthrene
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "17-ketosteroid." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/760185/all/17_ketosteroid.
17-ketosteroid. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/760185/all/17_ketosteroid. Accessed November 29, 2024.
17-ketosteroid. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/760185/all/17_ketosteroid
17-ketosteroid [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2024 November 29]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/760185/all/17_ketosteroid.
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